No, I am not a jelly donut (...but you may remember those words from Kennedy's speech he gave in West Berlin) however; I did get a "taste" of Berlin this weekend. Okay, that was a terrible pun, I guess I just can't get away from the Valpo way of thinking. Berlin was a lot of fun. I went with friends from Valpo, Neal, Sam and Kelly. There is very little different about the way Berlin looks in comparison with large American cities but it had interesting historical sites such as: the Berlin wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Victory monument, the Riechstag and other Prussian/Habsbourg monuments. We went to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which I definitly recommend if one is interested in that part of German History. Although the Berlin Wall came down 18 years ago it seems
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